Lucknow: Coming Sunday RTI activists shall stage a demonstration near the Uttar Pradesh State Information Commission (UPSIC) in Lucknow to protest against the arrest of RTI activist Siva Elango in Tamilnadu. Activists shall raise a demand that all judicial and quasi-judicial bodies in the country should offer a chair during proceedings. Members of various Social Organizations of Uttar Pradesh shall also participate in the protest against the inhumane act of arrest of Elango.
RTI activist Elango was arrested for taking a seat during a hearing before a two member bench of chief information commissioner K S Sripathi and commissioner S F Akbar of Tamil Nadu State Information Commission.
UPSIC has also been harassing RTI applicants and they are killing the RTI Act. UPSIC too, has even neglected the basic right of activists to sit during a hearing. Previously IC Arvind Singh Bisht sent Senior Citizen RTI activist Ashok Kumar Goyal to jail and...................................................
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